NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NORWICH ; AND GENUS GLYl’TA, GU. Gi> 
before recorded as having been taken in England. These small 
insects are easily overlooked. 
One species of Ichneutes has been recorded as occurring in Britain 
reunitor). I have taken another very distinct species, which is 
probably the other European species, I. leris, Wesm. It differs from 
the former species in having the body quite black, base of antenna: 
reddish, wings dark, the radial cell is much shorter, and the 
longitudinal grooves on the mesonotum are very different. 1 took 
this species in the neighbourhood of Norwich. 
Iialiday in the ‘Entomological Magazine’ (voh iv.) included 
Bhoyas testaceus, Ns., in bis monograph of British Bracons and 
added R. circumscrijdus, Ns., as a synonym. Marshall in his mono- 
graph has omitted R. testaceus, Ns., and says: “The occurrence of 
the latter species (testaceus) in this country is merely hypothetical. 
The name was introduced by Iialiday, who, relying upon the 
descriptions of Spinola and Nees, confused it with circumscriptus, 
and treated that name as a synonym. It is necessary, therefore, to 
discard testaceus until some one can produce an authentic British 
specimen.” At the beginning of September I took a female, 
which I believe to be R. testaceus. The antennas have only 
thirty-one joints, and are only a little more than three-quarters 
the length, and not as long as the body, as is the case 
with circumscriptus. Marshall says, quoting from Hein hard and 
Spinola, that in the female the first segment of the abdomen 
is distinctly shorter than the apical width, and the second 
decidedly transverse. This is not the case with my insect, 
for although the first segment is certainly shorter than in 
circumscriptus, it is rather longer than wide ; the second segment 
is only just transverse, the apical segments are more retracted, and 
the head is rather less narrow behind the eyes. I think it must be 
testaceus. There is no other European species that has the antennae 
with so few joints, at least, not described in Andre’s Species of 
‘ Hymenopteres d’kurope et d'Algcrie.’ On July 28th, also 
at Earlham, I took a male of Microplites eremita, Eh. This species 
is new to Britain, and is the first of those having red legs which 
has occurred in this country. Eeinhard gives three European 
species in his monograph. 
In the latter part of the year I visited the Earlham Lane 
frequently in the evening, when the weather was fine, which 
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